As the corn rows reveal

Ron ****ing Swanson issssss [drum roll] . . . . . Kenny ****ing Powers.

So what was the deal at the end with

ahahaha i almost died when he said that

NBC is run by a bunch of Jerrys. The official line is that it was supposed to be Ron and Tammy's

http://www.nbc.com/parks-and-recreat...-registry/7040

Holy crap P&R was hilarious tonight.

Glad they finally gave Adam Scotts character something funny to do. Solid episode.

Oh, the AltaVista search engine jokes were one of the funniest things last night.

I know it was intentional, but the scene with Ian and The Douche was brutally painful to watch.

LOL

When the first Alta Vista reference came up I thought maybe that somehow NBC bought the rights to it and were trying to do product placement or something, then when the 2nd reference came I laughed my ass off and thought of BIG_DADDY.

Still getting caught up with the 2nd season....just finished LMAO at the episode where Leslie goes on a date with the MRI guy. Wow, one of the most perversly strange episodes ive ever seen on TV....but hilarious...

Will Arnett. He's married to Amy Poehler (Leslie Knope) in real life.

You won't live to regret this!

Over the last three weeks I've caught up on this show. It's truly fantastic. It puts The Office to shame.

Maybe the current office, but Not Season 1-3 Office.

Hate to say it but you guys are right, overall it is better then the Office. Hope it gets a permanent slot in the line up.

Its not already?

It get "Trumped" out of the line up when Apprentice is on. Unless they changed that but that is what happened this fall.

No that is not happening. It was a mid season replacement and it gets 16 episodes.

Only 16? that sucks......last season it got 24, at least according to Netflix.

At least when it premieres at midseason, they dont show repeats.

Not sure but I think they could only film so many episodes because Amy Poehler was/is pregnant. Not sure if she gave birth yet.

Could not disagree more. While this season of P & R is much better than last season, it will never replace The Office.

Now, Modern Family has a good shot of doing that.

Modern Family is decent but WAAAAAY overrated.

The Office is on the bubble for being taken off my DVR. That's how far it's fallen. It's || this close to joining Perfect Couples on the scrap heap.

To each his own. I find myself laughing more during that show than any other.

At this point I watch The Office out of loyalty. It can still be funny, but it's nowhere near the show it used to be, and it's the fourth best show on its own night and network.

BLASPHEMY! YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!

NO! TO EACH MY OWN!!! OBEY MY OPINON!!!!!

I've haven't watched a second of Couples.

You haven't missed anything.

Yep. I watch it because I always have. Nostalgia. It's not very good. Although when it does have the rare good week, it's generally a really good episode.

I still laugh at The Office, not like I used to, but I will watch out of Loyalty, and I want to see Michael Scott's swansong.

I think the office is another example of why you don't bring couples together on TV shows, because once you do, they stop being interesting. Jim and Pam used to be the heart of that show.

You had to bring Jim and Pam together on that show, even if it took out the component of the chase. Most TV shows, even great ones, are only really good for 3-4 years. After that, you just hope for good isolated episodes.

Yeah, The Office ideally would have ended after season 3. Jim asking Pam out was a perfect way to end the series since we'd have the happy ending without all the boring perfect relationship stuff that followed. To make it really work, you'd have Michael get the promotion instead of Ryan, which would be a hilariously ironic ending (total buffoon flukes his way into a big corporate job) and would make sense anyway since Ryan only got the promotion to set up future storylines.

I really wish American TV followed the British model. Only 6 or 7 episodes per season for as many seasons as the creators feel like doing it. I mean, the real reason cable shows have been so incredible is that the seasons are shorter and fueled by creativity rather than demand for a certain number of episodes. Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Wire, The Larry Sanders Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Flight of the Conchords all do/did seasons that are much shorter than on network TV and -- not coincidentally -- all have a much higher hit rate than the average network show, too.

I've always thought 13 episode seasons are the best. 6 episodes seems too short (I watch several BBC series...) and 20-24 seems too long. Although some shows do pull it off.

13 does seem to be the magic number for American TV. Maybe the networks will catch on and split the season in half, with one slate of shows in the fall and another slate in the spring?

They basically already do that. Splitting 20-24 episode seasons into two separate entities. Like with The Event coming back in two weeks with a 2 hour reboot.

(I know that wasn't what you meant, but that's what american TV would do with your idea, rather than have a fall set of shows and a spring set of shows)

I think USA may be getting it right, with shorter seasons broken in halves. They're avoiding the trap that SciFi fell into with Battlestar Galactica (20+ episode seasons broken in half with months-long gaps in between - they lost viewers steadily over the entire run of the series).

I believe The Office to be at its best when the writers balance the characters of the show. For example, I thought the PDA episode was up to the quality of the season two/three episodes. Michael and Holly were hilarious, but, not overbearing, Kevin was on his game, and the Jim and Pam sideplot was definitely humorous.

When comparing that episode to Threat Level Midnight, (An episode of which I had huge expectations.) The episode ended up spending way too much time on Michael and all of the characters became mere caricatures of themselves. The episode also suffers from the same fate if it focuses too much on Dwight, or Jim/Pam.

However, I will be a loyal follower of the show until the bitter end, and, I am still leaving out a faint glimmer of hope that it may find a new wind after Michael's departure.

Wait, what?

It is. I couldn't get into it last season. Not sure why, but I really like it this time.

Threat Level Midnight was worth it just for the several year payoff of a cursorily-mentioned item getting a full blowoff.

That, and Toby getting his head splattered across 10 different cuts.

:spock:

Dude, obviously you have a different gauge for how funny something is because last year, Parks and Rec was ****ing hilarious.

No shit. Its called personal preference.

To each his own, dude.

I thought season one was ok... season 2 was awesome... and 3 seems to be maintaining that level. This and Community are my favorite comedies right now.

You are good at watching television comedy. Unlike some posters here.

The 2nd season of Parks and Rec is one of the five funniest seasons I've seen from a TV comedy series.

Yep. Season two was incredible.

I'm not a pretentious prick like some posters here...



:)

I wouldn't go THAT far. Lol
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An Ultra Peanut classic.

Thanks for reiterating my post.

Even better is the big frog face that spits out a bunch of tiny frog faces who themselves spit out the "get out" word balloon.

Correct.

agree, they totally hit that season out of the ball park.

Just finished watching the entire 2nd season, and i have to agree....was as consistently as funny a comedy season as ive ever seen. Heck, ill even lump season 1 in there since it was only 6 episodes. I keep waiting for the funny to fall off, but it hasnt yet.....just great stuff. Thanks to everyone in this thread who turned me on to this show.

"I said I wanna drink alone"

Well, yes.

Nuts and Bolts this show is getting screwed tonight! All six slots are office re runs. I was looking forward to PandR!

Janeene Garafalo Jr?

This cracked me up


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Ron Swansopn eating a banana might be the NEW funniest thing I've EVER seeen on TV.

http://eater.com/archives/2013/04/12...ana-burger.php

LMAO That was ****ing hilarious.

I haven't seen any of the latest stuff that's not on Netflix yet, but that show is pretty good from what I've seen.

Ron Swanson is one of the funniest TV characters I've ever seen. Definitely up there with Dwight Schrute.

I was watching the second episode of Deadwood earlier tonight and Ron ****ing Swanson was swinging his dick around bragging about how he branded some pussy. Then he went and got himself killed by Wild Bill Hickok. It was a confluence of two of my favorite shows, I didn't know Nick Offerman had been in Deadwood. He'd probably do well in a cameo on Justified, too.

LOL at Aubry Plaza

http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-new...123437770.html

Patton Oswalt, folks.

http://splitsider.com/2013/04/watch-...parks-and-rec/

I would SO go see Chewbacca's robot spider body battling Wolverine!

That was epic, and everything about that movie sounds better than anything Lucas has crapped out in decades.

That was awesome. He should have tied in Justified as well, though.

Watched the Season 4 bloopers on youtube, and Chris Pratt slayed them with an off-the-cuff joke.

The scene was about Team Knope working on bouncing back from the series of campaign disasters in previous episodes.

Anne: Everyone loves a good comeback story, right? Seabiscuit, The Mighty Ducks

Leslie: Robert Downey Jr. . . Who Else

Anne: Rocky.

Andy: Kim Kardashian!!

Leslie: [skeptically] Well? . . .

Andy: No, in the video she gets come on her back, I think.

Guys - bust out laughing

Gals - shade their eyes

Rhetta: 'He's always gotta make the wrap party.'

I thought it was kinda dumb. No grown man is afraid of fruit.

He's not afraid of it, he's repulsed by it.

a little off topic.

anyone been watching (or trying to get through) the last few episodes of The Office?

wow, that shit sure jumped the shark. It's painful to watch. But I feel like I've watched them all, may as well get through the last few. I'm a completionist, what can I say.

The marriage problems story line about Pam and Jim and the sound guy is really forced and tiresome. I don't think I've watched the last two yet so maybe they got done with that.

Is the popular thought still that Parks and Rec is probably cancelled after this season?

It would suck to be sure, but I'd expect nothing less from the idiots at NBC.

I doubt it. I know that every other week you read their ratings hit an all time low, but they have to see some value in it.

The last episode was arguably the best episode of The Office since Michael's Goodbye.